Italy is celebrating Dante’s 750th birthday by creating its own circle of Hell on earth (a nationwide selfie campaign). | The New Yorker

“Traffic is a perennial struggle,” “the weed here is not for lightweights,” “beautiful people get away with practically anything,” and other facts you may not know about L.A., excerpted from City by City. | N+1

“Like Xanther has this cat in her hands at the end of the book, the book is like the cat in people’s hands.” So much depends upon our reading of The Familiar: an interview with Mark Z. Danielewski. | The Rumpus

We, not Philip Roth, are the egotists in his non-retirement; it is clearly all about us. | The Baffler

If you’re very invested ($3.8 million) in showing that you really loved 12th grade AP Literature, you can now buy the house in which F. Scott Fiztgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. | CBC News